At the Two Sessions political meetings earlier this year, policy advisors proposed multimedia and educational strategies to protect ethnic minority languages, which they say are disappearing at an ...

In the decades after the revolution in 1911 that drove the Qing from power after nearly 300 years, Mandarin Chinese vanquished the Manchu language, even in its former stronghold in the forested ...

Photo: Xinhua A Manchu language inheritor said on Tuesday that only about 200 to 300 people in China are able to speak the critically endangered language. Tan Shanshan, a 33-year-old language ...

The first Chinese-Manchu dictionary has been published to preserve the official language of the Qing Dynasty, China's last imperial dynasty that lasted from 1644 to 1911. The lexicon, which ...

The Manchu Language and Culture Research Centre, which is affiliated to Heilongjiang University in Harbin, capital of Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, is embracing its first ever batch of ...

When he ventures inside the walls of the Forbidden City, the last of the Manchu bow-makers can still glimpse the ancient signs in the language of his warrior people, but he has no idea what the ...

In the decades after the revolution in 1911 that drove the Qing from power after nearly 300 years, Mandarin Chinese vanquished the Manchu language, even in its former stronghold in the forested ...